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    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I support the Committee’s Report and recommendations. It is led by my good friends, Hon. Tongoyo and Hon. Dido Raso. The entire team visited my constituency and other places in Baringo County. I appreciate. They met real issues on the ground. They reported them correctly. I was with them on the ground and here in Parliament when I presented the issues before the Committee. Secondly, let us start from a positive aspect. These seekers of banditry or criminals ravaging the entire North Rift started way back. I call them seekers because banditry moves to a state where you think it has ended and then it reccurs. I will give a case study so give me time. From late May to just a few weeks ago in March, there was some love and peace, especially between my constituency and our neighbours in Tiaty Constituency. Immediately the rains started and pastoralists came forcefully to graze in an area that they raided, they have started raiding continuously in the morning, during the day, and in the evening. It is like breakfast, lunch and supper. On Monday, we buried one person who was killed in his home. As I speak on this microphone in Parliament, a National Police Reservist was shot in Ng’aratuga area. He is recuperating in Kabarnet Referral Hospital. I am even very sure, because I do not have my phone, that there could be something happening today. There are continuous raids. I appreciate the Government for its work during that period of peace. What did we do so that you know who is normal and abnormal? During this period, we opened all the schools in Baringo North which were closed. We brought back people who had fled the area. We re- stocked and helped the people who lost lives. Within six months, we lost 32 people. We gave three cows to a family that lost a human being to bring back life. Those who lost property and were injured were given one cow. We gave four goats to those who lost everything. We were trying to bring back lives of the people and re-opening schools. We even fenced the schools that re-opened and provided mattresses to those children who came back. We tried to do water projects to bring back life during that period when we had peace. We reported this to the President and told him that the guns were silent. What happened immediately? We have been brought back to the situation where we were. I want to explain it. Please, give me time because this is the truth. The so-called \"Operation Maliza Uhalifu\" has not been done in the North Rift. The truth should be said. When bandits hit an area, police officers pursue them for only one day and then they come back. As we speak here, we lost 75 goats the other day, and they have not been recovered. They attempted to steal 250 cows, but they ran away with 11. What is an operation?"
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